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Violence or Non-Violence
This clip features Russell Meeks speaking during a live public television special broadcast in 1968. These programs were aired withou...
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We’ll Never Turn Back
We’ll Never Turn Back (1963) Sponsor: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Director/Producer: Harvey Richards. Transfer Note: S...
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The Negro and the American Promise
“The Negro and the American Promise” is a one-hour public television documentary produced by WGBH Boston in June 1963. Th...
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Black on Black
In 1968, a groundbreaking television documentary titled Black on Black aired in Los Angeles. Created by journalism professor Joe Salt...
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In 1968, Black Americans Debated What to Call Themselves
In 1968, as the country wrestled with civil rights, identity, and power, JET magazine asked a deceptively simple question: What shoul...
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The All-Black Female Battalion History Tried to Forget
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — known as the “Six Triple Eight” — made history during World War II as the only all-Bl...
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1968 Debate: Violence or Non-Violence
This rare 1968 public television discussion captures a moment when America was openly wrestling with race, power, and the future of t...
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George Foreman Fought 5 Heavyweights in one Night
April 26, 1975. Six months after getting knocked out by Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle, George Foreman walked into Maple Le...
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Before Social Media, They Had This Raw Debate on Live TV
A nationally televised conversation from 1968, aired on PBS as part of a series created to present Black American life from a Black p...
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The Pruitt Igoe Experiment
During the Cold War, parts of St. Louis became the site of secret U.S. Army testing meant to study how particles would spread through...
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Executed by the Government at 14- Years-Old
At just 14 years old, George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. In 1944, Georg...
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Executed by the Government at 14- Years-Old
At just 14 years old, George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. In 1944, Georg...
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The Stolen Girls of Leesburg Stockade
In the summer of 1963, in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, a group of young girls—some as young as 12—were arrested for protest...
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George Crum: The Black Chef Behind One of America’s Most Iconic Snacks
Potato chips are one of the most recognizable snacks in the world. They fill grocery shelves, stadium stands, vending machines, and k...
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‘Sanford and Son’ star Grady Demond Wilson dead at 79
Demond Wilson, the actor best known for portraying Lamont Sanford on the landmark 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, has died at his home...
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Philip A. Payton Jr. – The Black Real-Estate Strategist Who Helped Flip Harlem’s Color Line
Philip Anthony Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 29, 1917) was a Black real-estate entrepreneur best known for building (and agg...
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Former Illinois Deputy Sentenced to 20 Years for Sonya Massey Killing
A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Bla...
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The Government Secretly Sprayed this Housing Project with Chemicals
In the middle of the Cold War, an American neighborhood became part of a military test — without the people living there ever being t...
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The Stolen Girls of Leesburg Stockade
In the summer of 1963, in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, a group of young girls—some as young as 12—were arrested for protest...
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Nigroes With Guns
In the 1950s, while most civil rights leaders preached strict nonviolence, one man in North Carolina took a different path. His name...
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Before Social Media, They Had This Raw Debate on Live TV
This informal discussion aired on PBS in 1968 as part of a series focused on presenting Black American life and perspectives through...
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When Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostages
When Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostages In November 1990, as the world braced for war in the Persian Gulf, Muham...
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Inglewood Daycare Worker Caught on Video Throwing Shoe at 5-year-old Special Needs Child
A mother in Inglewood says she is outraged after surveillance video showed a daycare employee throwing a shoe that struck her 5-year-...
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Syracuse Woman Who Lived at Husband’s Grave for Months Finds New Home After Police Intervention
For more than half a year, Rhea Holmes lived in silence among the headstones of Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York, sleeping each...
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Negroes With Guns – The little known history of Robert F. Williams
In the 1950s, while most civil rights leaders preached strict nonviolence, one man in North Carolina took a different path. His name...
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Why Prince Wrote “SLAVE” on His Face
In the early 1990s, Prince took on one of the most powerful record labels in the world. He changed his name, wrote “SLAVE” on his fac...
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The FBI’s Secret War on Black America
COINTELPRO is one of those phrases that floats around American history like a warning label everyone’s seen but few have actually rea...
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How the KKK Made Money Off Hate
The Ku Klux Klan is usually framed as a hate group built on ideology. But when you look closer, its structure tells a different story...